Tournament starts at 6pm AEST. No entry fee and no prizes, just play to get ready for BAM!

Because this week, we are expecting a big tournament turnout, here are some specific rules:

When signing up, please use your steam alias (or something that lets us identify you). Alternatively, after signing up, please add either Kay (http://steamcommunity.com/id/2lostsouls) or Hablaskakaf (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Hablaskakaf) to your steam friends list. This lets the tournament organisers know who you are and so can call you into their lobby for your match. There will also be a steam chat created whereby the TOs will invite everyone in the tournament to join, which will allow people to connect with each other easily for matches. If you sign up and the tournament organisers are unable to locate you for your match, you will be disqualified.

Firstly, this is a double elimination tournament, BO3 until grand finals (GF is BO5). Matches in the winners bracket will be streamed to either twitch.tv/rochesta or twitch.tv/hablaskakaf

All round 1 matches will begin at 6pm, and is expected to end by 6:30. Most will be played off-stream but only a select few will be chosen to play on-stream. Off-stream matches are conducted privately between you and your bracket opponent. You and your opponent will be informed about this when the time comes. If you have not shown up for your round 1 match by 6:30, you will be disqualified.Disqualifications up to the discretion of the tournament organisers.

Round 2 matches will begin at approx. 6:30pm. These will be selectively streamed, so some matches will be played off-stream.If you have not shown up for your Round 2 match by 7:30pm, you will be disqualified.

Round 3 matches will begin at approx. 7:30pm. These will be selectively streamed depending on the numbers. Expected time of completion is by 8:30pm.

At 8:30pm, if time permits all Top 8 matches will be streamed. Otherwise, only Top 6 matches will be streamed.

Congrats to Shang for taking it out this week! Special thanks to Goodpart for streaming the event and for some stellar commentary, the ozhadou stamp on this tournament bought a tear to my eye. Foreshadowing perhaps?